--- title: Pont | daily.dev description: A developer built Pont, an online multiplayer Qwirkle board game, using Rust compiled to WebAssembly for both client and server — with no JavaScript written by... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/pont-9ia5ndfyx twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Pont | daily.dev og:description: A developer built Pont, an online multiplayer Qwirkle board game, using Rust compiled to WebAssembly for both client and server — with no JavaScript written by... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/pont-9ia5ndfyx og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/9IA5NDfYx.png og:image:alt: Pont og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Pont **[Matt Keeter](https://daily.dev/sources/mattkeeter)** · 6 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary A developer built Pont, an online multiplayer Qwirkle board game, using Rust compiled to WebAssembly for both client and server — with no JavaScript written by hand. The post covers the full architecture: an NGINX proxy, a Rust async server using the smol runtime with MPSC queues and WebSocket communication, and a 2000-line framework-less Rust/WASM client doing direct DOM manipulation via web-sys. Messages are strongly typed, serialized with Serde and bincode. Key challenges included async Rust ecosystem fragmentation, cross-browser compatibility (especially Safari), and managing stateful UI complexity without a framework. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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